Well ,that was the last Monday of the school year :)

Monday, June 24th

I find Mondays are frantic normally so a Monday at the end of the year when everyone is tired, stressed and the students "done' is madness! Today was a busy and frantic kind of day and the rain pouring down to beat the band didn't help!
Summer?

no homework
but I have to commend Teaghan and Helena for going the extra mile on their poster for the Spend a Million project- it was excellent and so neatly presented - loved it :) Thank-you both

Reminders
Eduardo please return the euphonium
Tom Lee Music here for the instruments and renrtal agreements tomorrow
Library books please return
Year End Assembly  on Wednesday morning farewell to staff leaving, Grade 7 awards and address on behalf of the grade sevens
Thursday morning- report cards distributed (last hour of the school year!)

Our Day...
last daily French today

Activity: Our Year in review
Picks and Pans Survey
Think-Pair- Share activity
This took much longer than I though it would but we all seemed to be able to look at the year in retrospect and share some memories and laughs

This actually will help my annual 'sillies' awards which I present before report cards on the last day. These are awards of dubious honour in far flung categories such as Tiniest Pencil to write a paragraph; Hermoine Granger Know-it all-award; Best lunches and let's not forget the Stealth bomber (strange smells emenating from the atmosphere around)!!!!
It is all in good fun and everyone will get a Johnston 'silly' award.

They have awarded me Best Teacher Spazz over a piece of Cheese - yes, I deserve it but didn't realize it had such a lasting impression on them. It is a bit of a long story...very convoluted...nutshell version... lunch time- cheese was given from one student to another but before he could eat it, another student stole the cheese and ate it and I got rather upset that someone would fly in and steal a piece of cheese off someone else's lunch. See...the students thought I was losing it- someone offered me a Snickers bar! "It was just a piece of cheese Mrs. J. We're all good!"
Meanwhile the cheese eater is in tears, the student who lost his cheese was stunned and I feel awful.

After our memories, chatting, laughing and trying to have our stories heard, we tried a Math Jeopardy type game but making fair teams was challenging and we managed one round before it was time for the grade sevens to prepare to go to Don Ross for their orientation day.

Afternoon - grade sevens at the high school

Computer session Grade 6 1-1:40pm

Back in class with the grade 6 (there are only 20 of them! 6 girls and 14 boys!)
we did some planning for next year by way of an activity using a progressive poster round which they tackled in teams. We decided on what worked well this year and wanted to keep and made suggestins for what we might be able to improve and/or change for next school year when they are in grade seven. It was interesting and I had a chance to observe how they worked together.

We were just getting onto a cooperative game when the grade sevens returned and we all returned to our respective classes.

We completed the day with a quick brain warmer activity but it seemed only a few brains were functioning at the day's end  lol

The grade sevens seemed to have a good afternoon at DRS. Ask them all about it.
More fun tomorrow no doubt...
Have a dry evening
Mrs. J.